Mine Play Store Reviews

Same methodology as iOS mine-competitor-reviews, with Play-specific tools.

Why Play Store reviews differ from App Store

• Longer reviews on average (Play allows 500 chars, App Store 1500 but used shorter)
• More technical complaints (device-specific, Android-version-specific)
• More negative skew in emerging markets (lower expectations? lower English?)
• Developer can REPLY to reviews — public conversation
• Ratings can be updated by user → trend over time per user

Tools to pull reviews

Free

# google-play-scraper (Node)
npm install -g google-play-scraper